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School: Rampark, Jenkinstown (roll number 2532)

Location:
Rampark, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Aodh Ó Fionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 089

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    1. Joseph McDonald
    2. River Foot, Riverstown, Dundalk.
    3. Forty-six years.
    4. Labourer
    5. Patrick McDonald. At the "big war."
    6. Patrick McDonald
    7. Thirty years.
    8. Sixteen years.
    9. In Maddon Garden
    10. 5-9-38
    There were two boys and one night they went to steal apples. They stole the full of a bag and one boy asked the other to divide the apples equally among them. "What quiet place will we get!" asked one boy. The graveyard" said the other. They went to the graveyard, and emptied the bag and they said, "one for me and one for you." A man was passing on the road and heard them and he ran to a neighbour's house
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Mc Dermott
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Joseph Mc Donald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    46
    Occupation
    Labourer
    Address
    Riverstown, Co. Louth